Fullerton v. Government of the Canal Zone

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error, Raymond R. Fullerton, hereafter referred to as defendant, was the constable of the magistrate’s court for the division of Cristobal, Canal Zone. An audit of his books disclosed that he had failed to account for and pay over to the proper officer various fines that had been received by him in his official capacity. On demand he made good the shortage. On September 26, 1924, an affidavit was filed in the said magistrate’s court, charging defendant with having feloniously appropriated to his own use an additional amount of $91. Defendant was arrested,…